Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-29
NEWS In BRIEF.

bears are said TO be plentiful In
the swamps of Georgia.
Huron, Dakota, has organized a
'Homely Mans Club"
Nebraska high license towns COM
plain Of ''holes-in-the-walls."
"A Connecticut girl has gone insane
from beng kissed in the dark.
A Name lady has refused 5000
,or her tresSes, 8 foot inch long.
"A perfectlV petrifed rosebud has
1een found al Valley Head, Alabama.
1t is said there are moro paperr
devoted 10 cycling than to any othes
sport.
"A rink in Harlem, New York, was
robbed OF 1000 pair of roller skates re-
Gently.
"A Litchfield, Connecticut, dame of
20 has got divorce; he left her 81
years ago.
A llfth wheel, for use on light We
hicles, has been invented by Keokuk
(Iowa) man.
Rock Rapids, Iowa, is being done
10y missionary of the converted
gambler" kind.
"A single oyster opened the other
day by Fair Haven Conn. man con-
tanned 163 pearls.
Among the little wants that Brook
Iings, Dakota, wants strong is a lin
burger cheese fac tory.
Atlantic County, New Jersey is re-
Iported entirely out OF debt and has
81, 900 in the Treasury.
Madrid society has been warmly
discussing the question "Can a bull
lighter be gentlemanp"
"A vineyardist in Napa Valley,
california, has committed suicide by
Jumping into cask of wine.
-POmatum was introduced in 1886.
1t was compounded of the pulp of
apples. lard and rose water.
Japan is manufacturing jackets of
paper, linen thread being introduced
to give them necessary strength.
-Twenty-one barrels of hour are
used daily in making bread for the
1900 convicts in Sing Sing prison.
"A Georgia rooster recently killed
himself by eating 10 grains of corn,
81 peanuts and large quantity of
dough.
, Carpets should never be shaken,
as their weight incllnes them to part;
but should be laid on rope and then
/ beaten at the back.
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are
stated to have boen taken from Lon
don chimneys last year. Its value is
set at s204 ,00O-as fertilizer.
"A New York Central sleeping car
porter says he has been on the road for
Z lldf.ee.r years and oaly-two ladies' ever
/ foffered 90 paw fi'm for his trouble.
The great legal phenomenon at
jackson, Michigan, is a lawyer who
. eloquently defended in court, the other
day, a man who had stolen from him
an oveTcOat.
The absorbing question at Ashton,
Iowa, where the Town Council has re-
} fused to act on the question, Is whether
or not base ball playing on Sunday
shall be allowed.
-Sparrows have taken possession of
the tall pillars that support the elevated
railways in New York, and there.
amidst the din of travel, thousands of
little sparrOws are yearly hs:.cned out.
In fight between two drunken
men at Wabasha, Minnesota, one of
them had his left leg broken, and his
head nearly broken The other was
arrested and fined Sl5, which he paid,
and departed.
A lad in South Boston having
handed his teacher a note reading
Licking don't do this boy no good;
talk to him, " provoked an inquiry that
led TO the discovery that he had him
self written the note.
The harvest moon is the moon
near the full at harvest time in Eng
land, or about the autumnal equinox
when the moon rises nearly at the same
hour for several days. The autumnal
equinox occurs about the 23d of Sep
tember.
The Sutler at Fort Adams, Rhode
Isl md, has received orders from the
jcommandant not 10 furnish troops with
whisky or other strong liquor. The
order is due TO disturbance raised by
a soldier TO whom liquor was sold
while under arrest.
san Francisco papers complain of
the extent 10 which the use of profane
and vulgar language is permitted on
the streets Of that city, and charge
that the police, instead of being cham
pions Of decency aud good manners.
often offend in the same way.
"A young man In Winston county.
Mississippi, concluded he would marry
III 5Ta2-new suit without paying for
1t. He went TO merchant, obtained
the clothes on credit, stood up in 1t.
and returned 1t the next day, claiming
that it did not fit him.
"A girl in Shelby, Kentucky, was
provoked by the bad play of her part
ner 1T crOquet. She struck him on the
head with mallet, and caused brain
fever, OF which he nearly died. She
was kept IN custody until he recovered,
and then she married him.
"A curious cause OF death Is re-
ported from Burlington, New Jersey,
The deceased was cook on dredging
machine. In opening can OF toma-
toes his hands were cut by the tin.
Blood poisoning and death followed.
A most astonishing phenomenon of
the Jayanese earthquake was the split
ting OF the Papandayang Mountain.
In a flash Of time 1t was split into
seven parts. Where the lone noun
tam had stood loomed up seven peaks
each some 1000 feet high.
On the Devonshire coast In Eng
land n sea grass is boiled, chopped,
mixed with a small proportion of Oat-
meal, and made into bread, which
keeps from four to eight days, and is
much used by the poor Welsh people,
most Of it being sent to Swansea.
An English ethnologist has made
an interesting discovery. Sir Samuel
Baker notes as a curious fact that ths
negroes never tame elephants or wild
animals. The elephants used by the
Carthaginians were trained by the
Arabs and Carthaginians, but never
by negroes.
"A dozen years after Henry Hudson
had satisfied his Dutch employers that
the river which hears his namA was not